Re: Occasional spurious ERR_DNS FAIL?

This started happening to me some time ago.
The cause for me was overcongested bandwidth
Larger bandwidth, problem fixed :-)

On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Jonathan Larmour wrote:

> Occasionally (on order of once a day for my relatively lightly used squid)
> I notice DNS failures in cache.log for sites that exist. The access.log
> contains the following for the entry:
>
> 866650633.054 2181 172.16.204.115 ERR_DNS_FAIL/400 1150 GET
> http://www.yahoo.co.uk/headlines/970618/news/866647929-8666479291.html
> - NONE/- -
>
> A refresh brings up the page perfectly fine after the error screen.
> Obviously being so rare, debugging is difficult.
>
> This is linux 2.0.30, squid 1.1.10 linked with resolver from BIND 4.9.5-P1,
> and also running BIND 8.1-REL as the name server itself, although this
> problem also existed in 4.9.5-P1.
>
> Unfortunately I don't know which version of squid this started with, but it
> was earlier than 1.1.5. (Sorry, I've been out of the squid scene for quite
> a bit).
>
> Does anyone know why this is? Does anyone else have the same problem? I
> _think_ it is squid, and not the resolver/name server, but couldn't be
> sure. If nothing else, BIND gets an awful lot of attention (a lot more than
> squid) and I expect people would complain more. I'll play with the
> debugging if no-one knows here, but I thought I'd ask here first.
>
> TIA,
>
> Jonathan L.
>
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